For may we’re continuing our discussion of the common factors theory and focusing on unconditional positive regard. Come get support from your clinical community while sharpening your technical skills. You’ll leave sessions feeling connected and with some clearer ideas of how to intentionally do your work.
Ethics Training with Susie Snyder, LCSW and Lisa Race, LCSW. I’m helping produce this training which is on May 8th. Susie and Lisa will teach ethics from an authentic self perspective. Come and we’ll learn together!
Susie Snyder, LCSW Is providing an Integrative Approaches to Working with Trauma training on April 17, 2020. Susie reached out to me shortly after COVID-19 cases appeared in Washington state and hired me to help her move her all-day in-person training to an on-line workshop experience. Ariana Lloyd, LCSW helps mental health professionals develop their businesses through clinical supervision, private practice consultation and more.
For our clinical supervision sessions in April, we’re going to create some space to discuss the personal and professional impacts of COVID-19 and also continue our conversations around therapeutic alliance. We’ll keep it simple, compassionate and supportive this month. I know you are all strong and competent, but you are also carrying a lot. It’s my hope that our work together makes you feel not alone, and gives you more creativity, self-and-other-compassion, and some joy as you work through this time.
Anna Caitlin Photography will be providing our headshots at the Private Practice Party. Anna is a well-known and sought-after photographer in Portland, OR. She provides honest, meaningful images for therapists who are starting or growing their private practice.
I heard about Christopher through his podcast the Hip Hop Social Worker, and asked him to come MC the Private Practice Party. He’s got a lot of interesting and important projects around social work, race, oppression, and working with youth in the justice system. I’m excited for you all to get to know him and learn about his work, and understand how it impacts your work and how you build your business.
Our Private Practice Party is an event where curious therapists, social workers and counselors can meet every expert they’d want to consult with and/or hire all in one room. We’ve taken out the legwork for you and found the best of the best. Emeile Blank is one of three speakers who will share how she’s successfully navigated building a private practice, group practice and a creative agency on the side!
Our clinical supervision sessions are for marriage and family therapist interns, licensed professional counselor interns and social work associates. We cover the common factors each month. This month we’ll focus on the therapeutic alliance. We’ll read an article and come ready to discuss!
*photography provided by annacaitlinphotography.com
Karen Hixson, PHD, LPC is a clinician and activist in Portland, OR. She’ll be a speaker at our Private Practice Party, sharing her experience of starting and growing a practice and giving you her best advice, with some availability after for Q&A.
Andrea Redeau, LPC is a therapist who will be a speaker at the Private Practice Party! She’ll share on how she built her private practice which focuses on serving people of color and exploring oppression, finding solutions for depression, anxiety, life transitions and more. She’ll give insider tips you can use to build your new practice.
For February we are talking about love, and by love I mean empathy. When do you feel more connected than when someone really understands your life experience in a compassionate, accurate way?
For January all of our clinical supervision sessions will be centered around learning about the Common Factors and goal consensus and collaboration. Being on the same page as your client starts with knowing what they identify as the problem, and what they believe will be the solution. From there, you brainstorm, explore, and negotiate until you’re both ready to start the work together.
